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The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) offers this website with resources related to sustainable and equitable development.  ILSR champions local, humanly scaled economies.  As such, it distributes research and teaching materials on a weekly basis.  These materials can be located under the...

This website, provided by Colorado State University, features the multidisciplinary research of the Institute for the Built Environment. Its mission is to foster stewardship and sustainability of the built environment through a research-based, interdisciplinary educational forum.  A resource library...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has developed several lesson plans as part of the Teacher In-Service Program for use by engineers and teachers. Each lesson plan is tied to education standards and includes teacher summaries, student worksheets, and activities. Lesson plans in this...

This paper, from Frank S. Cheng and Xiaoting Chen from the Engineering and Technology Department of Central Michigan University, covers the integration of 3D vision measurements into industrial robot applications. Topics covered include 3D binocular stereo vision and calibration, robot hand-eye...

This presentation by Paul Sackett of the University of Minnesota was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011. In it, Sackett discusses integrity tests, both personality-based and conditional reasoning varieties, counterproductive work behavior (CWB), what the...

This page, from the Intel Corporation, introduces the company's program to help the academic community develop security curriculum and better educate "a pipeline of capable students who can tackle real-world security related challenges." Directed at university faculty and administration in the...

This presentation by Joachim Funke of the University of Heidelberg was given to the Workshop on Assessment of 21st Century Skills, held in January 2011, and it covers the unique characteristics of problem solving in the 21st century: complexity, intratransparency, dynamics, and goal conflicts. Funke...

Think small--really small. Some nanotechnology devices are as small as one nanometer, or 1/80,000th the width of a human hair. At these sizes, it is no wonder that scientists have seized upon nanotechnology for its potential in medical applications. In the not-too-distant future, as this slide show...

This page is a course overview for Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) course 11.364, International Environmental Negotiation.  The site contains materials from a graduate research seminar on complex negotiations of international environmental issues. The class explores the challenges of...

This 38-page paper was presented at the 2020 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and discusses the Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE) project. CREATE aimed to administer an Energy Storage Project with the overarching goal of advancing the...